Weekly Updates

Weekly Update 2017-02-21 Dear Members and Advocates, Things are happening in Tallahassee. It’s that time of year, where bills are introduced, they are kicked around in legislative committees and we need to be contacting our senators and representatives letting them know how we feel about them. There are some bills that are good and some that are bad. Here’s our

Weekly Update 2017-02-14 Dear Members and Advocates, Megan, Jessica, Adam… all child victims of sexual abuse and murder whose names have now been turned into legacy through laws designed to punish sex offenders.   The actual killers of these children are now dead or serving a life sentence. The irony is they will never be subjected to the punitive laws created

Weekly Update 2017-02-08 Dear Members and Advocates, This past week, we saw our first significant “sex offender” Bill come out of the Florida Senate and it concerns Internet Identifiers. It would seem; in response to the issuance of an injunction in the Internet Identifier legal challenge, the legislature is seeking to pass a more “watered down version” of the Internet

Weekly Update 2017-02-01 Dear Members and Advocates, In Naples, a petition is circulating to increase the residency restrictions. We know that sex offender residency restrictions do not work and there is a wealth of studies out there proving this fact, including: *   No Place to Call Home: Rethinking Residency Restrictions for Sex Offenders<http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/bctw36&div=14&id=&page=> *   Hidden challenges: Sex offenders legislated into

Weekly Update 2017-01-24 Dear Members and Advocates, This past week we got a new president. Donald Trump promises to be the “law and order” president, which would likely be very unfriendly to our cause. At the same time, President Trump touts himself as an astute businessman and therefore would have to question what return on our country’s investment does mass